A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Explore five fascinating extinct human species that once walked the Earth beside Homo sapiens, from Neanderthals to the ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to Neumark-Nord in one massive load, where they were intensively processed into ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was enthusiastically embraced among Anglo-Saxon elites, then by ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, never one to retreat from a politically explosive terrain, has returned with Jungle Gym, ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

If the world feels out of control, dystopian, or even apocalyptic, it's possible to change course. The fate of the human ...

The small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago. The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones—hosts ...